Internet Frying NYT Headline About Ruling Fact Checkers Meta Criticism of Fact Checkers ‘Fake:’ ‘Beyond Parody’
The New York Times was surprised by a headline on Tuesday about Meta fact-checkers checking their own critics.
Meta announced that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting speech restrictions to “restore free expression” on Facebook, Instagram and the Meta platforms, acknowledging that current content moderation practices “have gone too far.”
But former third-party fact-checking partners have disputed accusations of bias and censorship in their work. PolitiFact’s Aaron Sharockman condemned the decision in a social media post, saying, “If Meta is upset about creating a censorship tool, they should look in the mirror.”
The The New York Times published an article about the reaction of such fact-checking organizations entitled “Target Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Say They’re Fake.” The article said, “Fact-checking groups that worked with the Met said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was vetted.”
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 23: The New York Times corporate logo hangs above the front door of their headquarters on October 23, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
But users across the X social media platform mocked the title.
“This actually does an effective job of exposing a problem with the fact-checking industry (perhaps by accident),” noted Reason senior editor Robby Soave.
“Fact-checkers claim fact-checkers are the problem. Real headline from the NY Times,” noted civil liberties attorney Laura Powell. “How can anyone produce satire when legacy media has become so ridiculous?”
“This is unbelievable. Meta says fact checkers are the problem. Fact checkers think it’s wrong,” Analytics Miami founder Ana Božovic said in a post. “To wrap up the absurdity: this is a NYT report.”
Tech billionaires including Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have backed Trump since his election day victory. (Getty Images)
“They really wrote this and then published it,” marveled Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo.
Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Z. Hemingway wrote, “An exceedingly parodic headline from the New York Times propaganda newspaper.”
“I had to look it up myself because I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a parody,” political columnist Moshe Hill wrote in surprise, “It’s real.”
Meteorologist and data scientist John Basham joked that the headline “could easily have been” from the political satire website The Babylon Bee, adding: “Life has become a parody on the left”.
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Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News contributed to this report.
